GOG.com: only another 250 good old games left to add

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Now that the relaunch of Good Old Games is completed, and we can all download the retro classics from our childhoods again, managing director of the site Guillaume Rambourg has some news for us.

Believe it or not, the vault of classic games is not infinite, and he reckons he knows how many are left for GOG to add to the site. Talking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Rambourg said:

The thing is, I believe we are running after roughly 200 good old games and then I think the PC catalogue will be pretty much packed. There are only so many good old games. 450, 500 and then I think we’ll be done.

Adding the remaining 250 games to GOG.com (the site currently has around 230 titles) will take some time with a goal of 400 games set for some point in 2012. After that we don’t know what the plan is, but for gamers it means an almost complete resource of retro games.

In order to add new games to the site deals need to be done with publishers to allow the games to be updated for current operating systems and then revenue shared with the publisher for each sale. In some cases, it may be impossible to secure the rights to a game therefore the magical 500 game collection may never be reached.

I don’t think GOG.com can ever really run out of games, but the number it adds every year will surely slow down. Saying that, every year that passes opens up another year of games that can be classified as classics. So new games will always be available to add.

The great thing about this service is you really can’t complain if it is announced that new additions will fall off or even cease. By that time there will be a huge library of just about every classic you could want to play. Slowing down the number of deals done with publishers may actually allow Good Old Games to review and go after some of the really obscure titles missed the first time round.

I also see no reason for GOG to branch out in the future and start offering new games. It already has many deals with publishers, so approaching them about new titles and another site to run alongside GOG.com isn’t a major leap.